Re: devfs and udev

Måns Rullgård
2003-10-07T22:01:28Z

Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:

>> It's been my understanding that udev creates device nodes in a regular
>> filesystem. If this is the case, things like unclean reboots will
>> leave stale files behind. It will also not be easy to
>> bootstrap. Correct me if am wrong.
>
> mount -t ramfs none /dev
>
> That is what udev will run off of :)

There will still have to be some static device files to get the system
booted, right? init usually is rather unhappy if it can't find
/dev/console.

> Again, can you point me to any documentation that states that udev will
> do this on a persistant filesystem?

Can you point me to any documentation at all?

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